Getting supplies to survivors suffering from a brutal cyclone in Myanmar is now a “race against time” to prevent a disease disaster as some impoverished victims continue to wait for help a week after the storm, experts warned Saturday.
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Health experts are scrambling to prevent widespread illness after reports of malaria outbreaks and diarrhea surfaced in areas of Myanmar hardest hit by a cyclone, U.N. health officials said Thursday. (more…)
Medical Assistance Programs (MAP) International will provide emergency medical aid to help people in Myanmar affected by a devastating category four cyclone that struck the southeast Asian nation May 2. (more…)
A Burmese social welfare activist arrested during the September protests has reportedly suffered paralysis over half of his face due to lack of proper medical treatment inside Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, a colleague said. (more…)
Ko Aung Aung Tun, brother of 88 Generation Students leader Ko Ko Gyi, has said conditions in Insein prison are to blame for the deteriorating health of activists currently being held there. (more…)
Myanmar’s military government on Sunday declared the country bird-flu free
after three months without an outbreak of the deadly virus, state media
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A congenital defect makes it difficult for May Thet Swe to see. The
4-year-old’s eyelids don’t open normally, so to look at something in front
of her, she has to tilt her head up to the sky.
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Government crackdowns following last year’s pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar are having unexpected - and potentially disastrous - consequences, according to British newspaper The Times.
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Five people are hospitalized with severe burns, and a seven year-old girl is dead, as the vehicle they were riding in to escape army troops overturned on a steep hillside in eastern Burma.
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“Unfortunately many of our patients are alone or rejected by their families and society and this can be very depressing. (more…)
Sixty-one Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Mon ethnicity have contracted cholera in Ananbon village in eastern Burma, an area controlled by the New Mon State Party (NMSP). (more…)
The Myanmar livestock authorities Monday called on the country’s people to exercise a long-term precaution against the recurrence of deadly H5N1 bird flu. (more…)
At least 23 people, most of them children, have died of meningitis which has spread in an epidemic-like proportions in a remote area of Mizoram’s Saiha district since November, state health department sources said here on Monday. (more…)
Several Mithuns were killed recently by a strange disease were sore throat was the symptom. The Mithun is a bovine species (Bos frontalis) found in Chin state, northwestern Burma. Unidentified disease kills several Mithuns in Burma. (more…)
Officials warned earlier this month that bird flu still posed a potential threat to Myanmar [Burma] despite the government’s successes in combating the disease so far.
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Alliance Myanmar, a Burmese branch of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, has presented leadership awards to four Burmese social activists, honoring them for their community work.
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The Burmese government has questioned the accuracy of a recent international study which found a high child mortality rate inside the country.
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A topical film about people living with the HIV virus won the prize for best Burmese picture at Burma’s equivalent of the US Academy Awards on Thursday night.
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The central market in Kengtung, the capital of eastern Shan State, is a beehive of commercial activity in the mornings, reflecting the cultural kaleidoscope of Burma’s frontier.
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For anyone grappling with the thorny problem of assigning a financial value to human life, help is at hand. Insurance companies of the world, rejoice: Burma’s Defense Ministry has definitively established that one life is worth a bit less than six US dollars.
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